Statement/Joseph Amundsen

In contribution to this assignment I discovered information and history of the audio foundation, Reason being that i have researched the history of this building is because our ideas consisted on having indigenous sounds from the previous companies and industrial manufactures from this place and create music relevant to the sounds that these old industries use to create. I helped gather sounds for this building that we could add to our final piece. In the construction to manufacture our idea was to supply audio speakers and a simple iPod that could hold the music file. Throughout each stage on the stairs, the group three people from my group needed to operate the radios positioned on each level. I started off at the top level to kick off our assignment and as people persisted down the stairs, Tim Haines started the middle stage and towards the end Jason ended the assignment through playing the bell level which is the last stage. Using the effects of the stair well was an a advantage because it gave the noises produced a more resonating sound that helped build the adrenalin for the audience. Overall my contribution to this assignment was rather moderate due to our assignment being simple. To my perspective, simplicity travels further than complexity.  

Auckland Street Directory

1939 – Bedding Manufactures

Incorporating the sounds of the bedding manufactures creates a distinctive construction sound that is difficult to imply into the stages. We struggled to find some bedding machinery sounds that we could use to put into our design. To take over this idea, we are going to imply sounds from the ties factory because the sounds that relate to the bedding manufactures have very similar sounds.

1941 – 42 Anchor printers, Gum tape manufactures, Midland ltd.

Incorporating the ideas of having printing sounds as a medallic effect that we can add into the mid stage of the stair way.

1950 - 51 Anchor printers, Lingerie manufactures, Anderus and sons

To apply these sounds into our project, we couldn’t find any textual sounds that we can input in with our other sounds. This is some research that we found from the Auckland street directory. Proves that from the 1940’s to the early 50’s that some of the factories still applied.

1958 – Well styled clothes. Photo engraves.

Found no relevant music!

1964 – 65 Photo engraves. Midland

Found no interesting relevant sounds for this time of the year.

1971 – Printers enterprise.

We found some good sounds from a printer that can be used to create the notion of the week gut feeling.

1972 – Graphics holdings

1977 – Photo engraving malex trading